Restored

I was reading my bible the other evening and I stumbled across an awesome verse. I love reading different translations because new things can pop out at me that didn't before. This verse did that exact thing - Jeremiah 15:19 (New Living Translation)

19 This is how the Lord responds:

“If you return to me, I will restore you
so you can continue to serve me.
If you speak good words rather than worthless ones,
you will be my spokesman.
You must influence them;
do not let them influence you!

WOW! The idea of being a spokesman for God is amazing! This verse reminds me about how we as Christians are supposed to represent Christ. WE, me - YOU need to influence others and their relationships with the Lord. Non believers can not influence us. Do you know why? Because if we let others influence us we may lose our place in Heaven!! I am definitely not taking that chance!

God restores us. We go on our merry way thinking we can handle it all and how do we end up? We end up Broken. Tired. Defeated.

Think of the prodigal son. He asked his father for his share of the inheritance, took off and partied like a wild man until he found himself wanting to eat out of a pigs' trough. He heads back to his fathers' farm, hoping his father will allow him to work on the farm. Yet when he is walking home, his father sees him and runs to his son. His father embraces him, gives him a robe and a ring and has a big party for his sons' return.

His father restored him to his old place in the family. God does that for us too!! We think we can handle our lives just fine until something happens and we end up on our knees begging God to take us back. Crying and longing for His comfort again and what happens?

He restores us. He accepts us and loves us and holds us close. That is how awesome our God is. I am so thankful for our God who loves us even when we don't deserve it. Glory to our Lord!

Complaint Department

I have been trying my best not to complain during this pregnancy. We have waited so long for these babies and I don't want to seem ungrateful to God by complaining about aches and pains. Really, little things that I only have to put up with for 9 months and won't even remember once Roo and Lou are here.

I refuse to complain to others, besides the Hubbs. I am so thankful for the aches/pains/sickness because there are two lives inside of me. Two lives that I have been praying for and trying for, for over 3 years.

The only place I think I can unwind is here. Where not too many people who actually know me, read what I have to say.

Today is day 3 of this unknown sickness I have right now and I am miserable. My Dr's nurse thinks it is a bad reaction to my swine flu shot. I have every symptom EXCEPT a temperature, which is the main concern. My nose is stuffy on one side, runny on the other. I am coughing like a seal. My body aches. My head feels like it is full of boogers. My carpal tunnel (which only shows up during pregnancy) is much worse with Roo and Lou than when I was preggo with the Kiddo. Sitting up hurts my eyes, but laying down hurts my sides. I am using all my sick time from work for being sick during my pregnancy. Ahhh!!!

I felt one of my babies this last weekend. Like Roo pushed Lou or something, not a kick, but some sort of movement. It was awesome and I loved it. Now I wish that they would move again so my nerves would calm down from fearing that they are suffering too.

I have worked so hard in my past to stop being a worrier. I did exactly what my Gammy would always tell me to do - give it to God. I would pray about the situation and I would be calm and not worried - it worked every single time. Now that I have babies inside me, babies that God specifically gave to me and my family. The worries have returned. I try to give these worries to God, unfortunately, Satan continues to whisper awful things in my ear. So, if you are the praying kind, please say a prayer for Roo, Lou, and me.

Thanks for listening to my whining. I promise this won't be a continued thing. As I said earlier, I would much rather be going through all of this than not having these two beautiful babes inside me.

I've been shot!

I got it! Yahoo!!!



This wonderful band aid is covering my H1N1 vaccination that I just received today. I am so relieved! I have been surrounded by sick kids at my job lately and I was starting to get nervous about the delays in getting the vaccinations.

It will be nice to go to school on Monday and not be so jumpy about it. :-)

16 weeks

The hubbs says I look ready to pop! I still have a little over 6 months left! Will find out the genders on November 11th!!! Yay for Roo and Lou!

mud and blood...

... is the perfect title for our day at the pumpkin patch!



As soon as we got there the kiddo headed upstairs to the hay maze while we waited for the hay ride to pick us up. Next thing I know, I see her running to her Daddy crying. I thought she just freaked out when she didn't see us, turns out, she had run into a pole and got a bloody nose! Poor kiddo.

After we cleaned her up and calmed her down, out to the patch we went! When got out and she went running for the perfect pumpkin. She ran up and down.



She ran across



She looked at lots and lots of pumpkins



until she found the right one.



She was very happy with her small sized pumpkin. She carried it back to wait for the hay ride back to the farm. Once we got back, she cleaned it up herself.



And all was good in the world. The pumpkin is now in its rightful place sitting on our porch with quite a scary face.

fantastic time

The kiddo and I attended the Puyallup Fair awhile ago and were able to attend the TobyMac/Third Day concert. We had a great day together!

When we got to the fair we went to an exhibit called Al's Brain, which starred Weird Al. It was an interesting exhibit to say the least. The kiddo liked it and she learned a lot. She wanted to touch the brain, but chickened out at the last moment. After that we went to the rides. She loved the rides! We also ran into a noisy music stand that she played with for quite some time!



We ate and then headed over to the concert. She loved seeing TobyMac! She danced and sang - loving every minute! We sat off the ground to ensure that she would be able to see and not get smashed by anyone, the seats turned out to be primo seats, perfect shot of the stage!







Third Day put on a good show. It was almost exactly as I saw a few months ago and the kiddo started getting tired, so we left early. We could hear the music and only missed about 3 songs.

I am so thankful for the day that we spent together. All that walking and excitement of the day wore me out more than I was prepared and I spent the next day in bed, but it was worth it. I love spending special days with my kiddo.

This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you

When children hear their parents say "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you." The kids usually moan and think yeah, right. Now that I have to do things to my daughter that hurt me, I completely understand what my Mother was saying.

The kiddo has had a rough start with school this year. Last year she got along great with her teacher and loved going to school to see her. They had a great relationship and still do. This year I requested a teacher recommended by a few fellow teachers and friends because she teaches like the Kiddo's kindergarten teacher did. Unfortunately, the kiddo has been acting out in class/talking out of turn/being very touchy with the other kids. It concerns the teacher and it greatly concerns me, because I don't want my child to be considered a problem child that teachers warn other teachers about. (and they do, whether you want to believe it or not, teachers do speak about their students to the other teachers and "warn" them when they know who will be in their class.)

When I attended the kiddo's open house on Tuesday I learned of her behavior and decided we needed to set up some consequences that would happen if her behavior continued. Right now, one of the consequences was having to sit in the corner for 20 minutes. It seems extreme, but I wanted extreme measures to stop the behavior as soon as possible.

She is sitting there right now and it is killing me because I want to play with her. I want to read with her and do homework with her. I want to get ready for bed and cuddle with her and smell her hair. I want to talk with her about the fair and the concert tomorrow. I don't want to sit in the living room while listening to her breathe in the dining room while we are both sad.

I am praying that this is a quick, short phase that she will grow out of soon. I don't know how much more of this I can take!